How do you make money from free software? One way is to make an "Enterprise" version that you charge for, make the free version harder to find and use, and start using scary words like "indemnity ...

This patch allows checking if MySQL server is running without providing valid username and password. Similar to check_ssh plugin it returns MySQL server version string and protocol number. Example: ...

There are plenty of GUI tools available that can manage your MySQL database, even from the Windows environment.